Markus Johannes Langer
Markus Johannes Langer (* 1971 in Erlangen ) is cantor and organist at the St. Johannis Church in Rostock and director of the Rostock Motet Choir .
Life
As a high school student, Langer was a visiting student at the University of Music and Theater in Munich , majoring in the organ . In 1992 he began studying Protestant church music there, which he completed in 1997 with the A-exam. This was followed by a two-year postgraduate course with Michael Gläser , majoring in conducting, which he completed with the distinction of a master class. From 1993 Markus Johannes Langer was cantor at the Laudatekirche in Garching near Munich and was artistic director of the Münchner Singkreis from 1998 to 1999. First guest concerts took him to the Berlin Cathedral, among other places .
On February 1, 2000, Langer took over as cantor and organist in the St.-Johannis-Kantorei at the Johanniskirche in Rostock, one of the largest choirs in Northern Germany with over 350 members in several choirs. At over 50 church music concerts a year, he regularly works with artists such as Bogna Bartosz, Sylvia Schwartz, Peter Kooij , Kai Wessel , Ingeborg Danz , Thomas Quasthoff , the Hilliard Ensemble and the King's Singers .
Since April 2000 he has been teaching choir conducting and oratorio interpretation at the Rostock University of Music and Theater (HMT). In May 2008, Langer was appointed honorary professor at this university. He was one of the four candidates for the office of the Leipzig Thomaskantor to be filled in 2016 .
In 2019 he took over the artistic direction of the 94th Bach Festival of the New Bach Society in Rostock under the motto "Counterpoints".
Awards
- 1993: Scholarship from the Richard Wagner Scholarship Foundation
- 1996: 1. Promotion Prize of the City of Coburg for young artists
- 2009: Culture Prize of the Hanseatic City of Rostock
- December 13, 2009 appointment as church music director
- 2014: Honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the University of Rostock .
Discography
- John Rutter : Requiem . Sound spaces
- Carl Orff : The Christmas story . Sound spaces
- Historic organs in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania - saved for the future . Dabringhaus & Grimm , Detmold, 2004.
- In Principio . Aliud, 2006.
Fonts
- with Thomas Klie: Evangelical Liturgy . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt , Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-04068-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Succession in the Thomaskantorat - four candidates invited to trial weeks . Website of the City of Leipzig, accessed on August 30, 2015.
- ↑ Thomas Cantor Succession - Two candidates on the shortlist . Website of the City of Leipzig, April 19, 2016.
- ↑ dpa: Culture Prize for the Low German Association and Cantor ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , June 26, 2009.
- ↑ Rostock-based Markus Langer appointed church music director , October 20, 2009.
- ↑ Honorary doctorate for KMD Prof. Langer , Mecklenburgische & Pommersche Kirchenzeitung from April 6, 2014
Web links
- Works by and about Markus Johannes Langer in the catalog of the German National Library
- St. Johannis Kantorei in Rostock
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Langer, Markus Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cantor and organist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | gain |